Kenwood Kac 1020 Manual Lawn. You have a shiny new LEGO Mindstorms NXT robotics kit, built the first robot (the “tribot”) and then find yourself banging your head against the. Projects for the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT 1.X Versions at nxtprograms.com.

Download: The Lego Mindstorms NXT kit is an amazing upgrade to the original Lego Mindstorms product. While the building blocks are not the traditional plastic stud blocks everyone is used to, the new construction parts allow for some very complex designs. Additionally, Microsoft Robotics Studio supports the Lego NXT kit right out of the box, so it's quite easy to get up and going using MSRS with the Lego kit to start coding a robot in C# or VB.NET. With that in mind, this article will demonstrate how to use MSRS with the simple TriBot robot that can be easily built using the instructions included in the Lego NXT kit. LegoNXT TriBot Building The instructions for building the TriBot are located in the LegoNXT kit.

I am not going to repeat that here as the Lego picture instructions are far better than anything I can come up with. Really, any 2-wheeled bot will work for this sample, but it is assumed that the TriBot is the one you have constructed.

Plug the wires into brick as follows, looking at the front of the bot so the LCD screen is facing you: • A - Middle • B - Left • C - Right Additionally, I added the push button sensor to the front of the TriBot which is plugged into port 1 at the bottom. In the application, when the push button sensor is pressed, the robot will stop in its tracks until the A button is pressed again. Here is what my TriBot looks like: LegoNXT and Bluetooth Configuration Setting up Bluetooth can be troublesome.

I have found that the best way to get things working is with the following procedure. There are known incompatibilities with LegoNXT brick and certain Bluetooth adapters/stacks, so if this doesn't work for you, you may require a different stack/device.

• Ensure Bluetooth is enabled on the Lego NXT brick. This can be done by choosing the Bluetooth option from the main menu, and then selecting On/Off from the Bluetooth menu.

Make sure On is selected. • From your PC, search for Bluetooth devices in range.

The PC should fine one named NXT. Select it, and pair both the PC and the brick with the passkey 1234 (the brick will default to 1234 on its own). • When the process is complete, you should have a virtual COM port or two installed. If more than one is installed, make note of the COM port listed as the 'outgoing' port.

• Open a Command Prompt from the Microsoft Robotics Studio (1.5) program group and run the following command: dsshost -port:50000 -tcpport:50001 -manifest:samples Config LEGO.NXT.Brick.manifest.xml. This should start a web browser. If prompted for a username/password, enter your Windows login username and password. • The first line of the page in the browser is a text box labeled COM Port. In this box, enter the COM port the Lego NXT brick was installed on via Bluetooth above and click the Connect button at the bottom of the page.